Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board of Education. Later in the day he made another quiet pilgrimage to Capitol Hill. He walked into the office of Speaker Sam Rayburn at 5:25. It was the time, almost to the minute, that he had crossed its threshold four years before and had been told to call the White House. This time he was not interrupted, and spent 55 minutes with the "Board of Education" crowd, a group of congressmen and employees who drop in on the Speaker for a quiet drink every day after Congress recesses...
...Sam Schulman, a friendly fellow who is never stingy with a pickle, each day serves up sandwiches to hundreds of satisfied customers, gauges their opinions on what passes in the great world by the chance-remarks they make between bites. Sam has no doubt where most of them stand. "Everybody here," he says firmly, "believes in the Atlantic pact...
...Sam Schulman's considered opinion last week became the basis of a heated debate in U.N.'s high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman...
...Russians stood by icily as the Assembly voted 43 to 6 to pass the veto resolution. At his post in the Chambers delicatessen, Sam Schulman was well pleased with Mr. McNeil's work. As for Russia, Sam expressed a harsh and highly undiplomatic opinion. "Russia is no good," he said sadly. "Absolutely no good...
...since 1946. Most of the men who had dominated tournament play when Nelson left were still on top. At the end of the winter circuit, dapper Lloyd Mangrum, 34, led the pack in prize money (with $9,707); close on his heels in second place (with $9,110) was Sam Snead, 36, the country boy from the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia...